Podcast Episodes

Julie Owono: How local voices will shape the global internet

Julie Owono is a lawyer, executive director of Internet Sans Frontières and a fellow at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. She wa…

5 years ago

Dan Jurafsky: How AI is changing our understanding of language

Words are a window into human psychology, society, and culture, says Stanford linguist and computer scientist Dan Jurafsky. The words we choose revea…

5 years ago

Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation

When Riitta Katila looks at old photos or movies about the space program of the 1960s, she sees one common thread among the people depicted there — h…

5 years, 1 month ago

David Miller: How light could transform computing

As the silicon chip embarks upon its second half-century of dominance in computing and communications, the field is confronting fundamental boundarie…

5 years, 1 month ago

Jin Hyung Lee: How can we systematically cure brain diseases?

In recent decades, medical and biological science have advanced by leaps and bounds using technologies that allow us to peer into the brain in myriad…

5 years, 1 month ago

Mark Schnitzer: How to better understand the brain

Stanford’s Mark Schnitzer says several of the more exciting recent advances in his field of applied physics have come through developing new imaging …

5 years, 2 months ago

Mutale Nkonde: How to get more truth from social media

The old maxim holds that a lie spreads much faster than a truth, but it has taken the global reach and lightning speed of social media to lay it bare…

5 years, 2 months ago

Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world

Stanford’s Karen Liu is a computer scientist who works in robotics. She hopes that someday machines might take on caregiving roles, like helping medi…

5 years, 2 months ago

Jef Caers: How better mineral exploration makes better batteries

It has been said that batteries hold the key to a sustainable future.

But so-called “clean energy” does not come without environmental costs. For inst…

5 years, 2 months ago

Evan Reed: How to discover a magic material

Evan Reed and a team of scientists recently identified a promising solid material that could replace highly flammable liquid electrolytes in lithium-…

5 years, 3 months ago